GHOSTBUSTERS 2025
Steven Michel & GRIP
GHOSTBUSTERS is a performance that explores our spectral relationship to memory, time and reality. Conceived with five physical, musical and/or vocal performers, the performance is inspired by the notion of hauntology (imagined by philosopher Jacques Derrida and later developed by music critic Mark Fisher), which describes, among other things, the accumulation of ghostly traces of the past as we move into the future.
Steven Michel’s aim is to translate, choreographically and musically, the idea of survival and erasure, embodiment and disappearance, delay and anticipation.
Our ‘present’ moment is constantly being amused, disturbed, mocked and terrorized by memories, impressions and feelings of past events. Our ‘present’ moment is also being altered, assaulted, preoccupied,distorted and affected by future events or moments. We project the present into the past and hallucinate the future while believing we are looking at the present. We are never where we appear to be.
What do these ghosts say about us? Our spirits? Our beliefs? Our fears? Our rituals?
A hybrid form combining recording sessions, dance mania and vocal mantra, the performance GHOSTBUSTERS is a ghost in itself. It seeks to take shape in the bodies and voices of the performers, in the theatrical space and in the lived or unlived memory of the audience. It seeks hosts in order to express itself.
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CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Steven Michel
SOUND COMPOSITION Raphaëlle Latini
DRAMATURGY: Lynda Rahal
PERFORMANCE, CREATED FOR AND WITH Marina Sangra, Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Inga Huld Hakonardottir, 4th person to be confirmed
LIGHTING DESIGN to be confirmed
COSTUME DESIGN to be confirmed
VOCAL COACHING Valérie Joly (to be confirmed)
OUTSIDE EYE Cherish Menzo
SOUND ENGINEERING to be confirmed
STAGE MANAGEMENT to be confirmed
PRODUCTION GRIP: Anneleen Hermans, Rudi Meulemans, Lize Meynaerts, Klaartje Oerlemans, Jennifer Piasecki, Sylvie Svanberg, Nele Verreyken
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION A Propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, Lara van Lookeren
CO-PRODUCTION Les Subs, Perpodium, Espace Pasolini, Charleroi-danse, CCN Montpellier, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (confirmed)
WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
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GHOSTBUSTERS (2025)
Steven Michel & GRIP
GHOSTBUSTERS is a performance that explores our spectral relationship to memory, time and reality. Conceived with five physical, musical and/or vocal performers, the performance is inspired by the notion of hauntology (imagined by philosopher Jacques Derrida and later developed by music critic Mark Fisher), which describes, among other things, the accumulation of ghostly traces of the past as we move into the future.
Steven Michel’s aim is to translate, choreographically and musically, the idea of survival and erasure, embodiment and disappearance, delay and anticipation.
Our ‘present’ moment is constantly being amused, disturbed, mocked and terrorized by memories, impressions and feelings of past events. Our ‘present’ moment is also being altered, assaulted, preoccupied,distorted and affected by future events or moments. We project the present into the past and hallucinate the future while believing we are looking at the present. We are never where we appear to be.
What do these ghosts say about us? Our spirits? Our beliefs? Our fears? Our rituals?
A hybrid form combining recording sessions, dance mania and vocal mantra, the performance GHOSTBUSTERS is a ghost in itself. It seeks to take shape in the bodies and voices of the performers, in the theatrical space and in the lived or unlived memory of the audience. It seeks hosts in order to express itself.
credits
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Steven Michel
SOUND COMPOSITION Raphaëlle Latini
DRAMATURGY: Lynda Rahal
PERFORMANCE, CREATED FOR AND WITH Marina Sangra, Erwan Ha Kyoon Larcher, Inga Huld Hakonardottir, 4th person to be confirmed
LIGHTING DESIGN to be confirmed
COSTUME DESIGN to be confirmed
VOCAL COACHING Valérie Joly (to be confirmed)
OUTSIDE EYE Cherish Menzo
SOUND ENGINEERING to be confirmed
STAGE MANAGEMENT to be confirmed
PRODUCTION GRIP: Anneleen Hermans, Rudi Meulemans, Lize Meynaerts, Klaartje Oerlemans, Jennifer Piasecki, Sylvie Svanberg, Nele Verreyken
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION A Propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, Lara van Lookeren
CO-PRODUCTION Les Subs, Perpodium, Espace Pasolini, Charleroi-danse, CCN Montpellier, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (confirmed)
WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government